Ok, we did the same when I was a young mom. We didn’t have central air, so porch it was. All the other white neighbors had better AC and stayed inside. Our Black neighbors were also outside. That was 30 years ago, though.
We have a nice deck but the bugs ruined it until we built a roofed structure and installed a ceiling fan to blow on us. We hope to have many friends over for summer evenings outside now.